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When comparing Redis vs MemSQL, the Slant community recommends Redis for most people. In the question“What are the best scalable In-Memory Databases?” Redis is ranked 1st while MemSQL is ranked 4th.
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Pro Redis is written in ANSI C and therefore doesn't have a VM
Pro Good support
Redis has great docs, an active mailing list, and a github community.
Pro Redis uses the BSD license
This means that it is able to be used in a commercial product if one wants.
Pro There are numerous client libraries and frameworks to make redis more powerful
For Node.JS for example you can get something similar to what Parse.com was offering by using Node ORM.
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